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Norwood's System of NavigationEntry/Object ID
BK002745Description
Geometric principles, Gunnery art, logarithm tables. Projections of mariner's plain scale, compass, sphere on a plane, terrestrial and celestial globes, plain sailing by plain scale, travers working, table of longitude and departure, various other tables; mercator sailing, keeping a reckoning, plain sea-chart; quadrant, cross staff, nocturnal use; finding latitude distances; sun's declination tables of longitude, latitude, right ascencion, declination of certain fixed stars, finding prime, epact, moons age, high water year from the leap-year, dominical letter, square and cube roots, resolving right triangles, variation of the compass, spherical triangles right angled,oblique sperical triangles, quadrantal triangle,s oblique spherical triangles, sailing by arch of great circle. Tables and procedures for late 17th century ships' guns. How to make stink-balls, granada-shells and powder-pots. Log tables. Converting leagues to degrees of longitude in any parallel.
Leather bound. Fragmented frontispiece
384 pp., 11, [54], [92], [50] pp. Includes tables, diagrams on 11 plates (10 folding). Cover page partly torn away. Various notes penned in by previous owners: e.g. between pp. 8-9; 108 - 109Collection
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Book, Norwood, Matthew, Geometry - Early works to 1800, Navigation - Early works to 1800Book Details
Author
Norwood, MatthewPlace Published
City
London, EnglandCountry
England, United KingdomContinent
EuropeDate Published
1685Call No.
VK144.N89 1685